How A Fight Over Attending The Theatre Fueled Civil Rights Battle In the 1800s

"Across America, on both sides of the Mason-Dixon Line, the races were kept separate at the theater. Black people sat apart in the upper galleries or were excluded entirely, by custom and, in some southern cities, by law. As hybrid places"private associations open to the public"theaters were subject to municipal authority, but property owners possessed […]

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